On 01/04/2013 02:45 AM, Amin Sabeti wrote:
One point: Most of the Iranian banks have bought SSL certification from
TurkTrust.
Indeed. And one of the solutions that Mozilla is considering is to limit
Turktrust do .tr and .ir, by using the name extension in X.509.
Ralph
--
Ralph Holz
Network
Dear LibTech,
I'm passing on the link to a new report launched today
http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2013/01/belarus-pulling-the-plug/ by a
colleague on the worrying outlook for internet freedom in Belarus. Thought it
might be of interest to some of you.
It is available in English
Steven Aftergood at the Federation of American Scientists (FAS)
Secrecy News blog has posted a pair of Congressional Research
Service (CRS) reports of relevance for the list:
CRS (Jan 3) - "Internet Domain Names: Background and Policy Issues"
I would like to share this truly fascinating article:
http://www.salon.com/2012/12/31/north_korea_cracks_down_on_knowledge_smugglers/
From the article: “We must extend the fight against the enemy’s
ideological and cultural infiltration,” Kim said in an October speech
at the headquarters of his
One Media Player per Teacher is a 501(c) 3
charity based in Chico CA
(OMPT) helps international organizations
promote education in hard-to-reach communities by
providing low-cost, portable,
Library of Congress Blog (Jan 4) - Update on the Twitter Archive at the
Library of Congress:
http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2013/01/update-on-the-twitter-archive-at-the-library-of-congress/
Five-page whitepaper mentioned at end of pretty remarkable blog.
Library of Congress (Jan 2013) - Update on
Thanks, Nadim. I could not agree more. As the article explains, the North
Korean regime is facing an existential crisis because the pillar of their
stability through so much misery has been an absolute monopoly of information.
That has been decaying for several years and now it is really
